Here are the books I read this month, comming from the University Librairies,
Les sites Web : conception, description et évaluation[Stockinger Peter]
The Art & Science of Web Design [Jeffrey Veen]
Usability for the Web [Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, Scott Wood]
Big Book of Typographics 1 and 2 [B. Duncan, Roger Walton ]
Penser le WebDesign [Benoît Drouillat, Nicole [...]

Here’s a little table that I take from the book “Usability for the Web“(designing web sites that work).

Target Platform

Space Used by the Browser

Target : 640 x 480

Target: 800 x 600

Target: 1024 x 768

PC
 
 
 
 

Internet Explorer

43 x 160

597 x 320

757 x 440

981 x 608

Netscape

46 x 125

594 x [...]

Well Adobe did a nice work with this version #2, the interface is clearer, lot more of new video and audio effect, and there is no problematic change for a #1.5 user.
In the Audio I did noticed no difference (?), but Adobe have also realease Audition 2.0, which I will inspect as soon as possible. [...]

My Flash Stats Observer:
Open in a new windows flash Stats Observer

Permiere pro 2.0, after effects 7.0, audition 2.0,… All the tryouts are now ready to be downloaded, premiere pro is still only for windows user. Anyway be sure to meet the System requirements, and for AMD user SSE2-enabled processor IS required (AMD 64).
Go to the tryouts page on adobe.com
By the way, adobe has also put [...]

“Unless the first impression is favourable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors,” [Lindgaard]
Here a nice publication informing that potential readers can make snap decision in just 50 milliseconds and the first impression last. It’s also well known that the crucial time [...]

I’ve found a nice article about the eye attention on a webpage. It talk about:
The hompe page layout
Want people to read, not scan ?
Partial viewing of headlines
What creates “hot spots”
Where’s your navigation?
What about article layout
Advertising
Text for facts, multimedia grpahics for unfamiliar concpets
Read this article

I just had the joy to open my powerbook, to change my HD. This is the first time I’ve opened my powerbook and everythings went well. So now I’m back to work (exams time)!
By the ways I used this tutorials to change a hard drive in a powerbook. It’s in french but well understandable.
I also [...]

Adobe premiere pro 2.0 and after effects are out now,
you can take the premiere tour or the after effects tour.
There still is no download tryout but it shall come soon, I hope.

Don’t know if u heard about it, the ADAA is open and we have until April 28, 2006 to submit our works.
The official rules are :
The contest is open to students enrolled in visual arts programs at accredited institutions of higher education in the 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Austria, Belgium, [...]